grindcore
Blast Worship: Death Toll 80k
September 21, 2021 Gene Meyer
The numbers add up. Death Toll 80k are one of grindcore’s best bands at the moment.
Blast Worship: Ranker
September 7, 2021 Gene Meyer
West Coast powerviolence crew Ranker don’t care about your fantasy football draft.
Blast Worship: Deterioration
August 31, 2021 Gene Meyer
Minnesota’s premiere basement unit make their second appearance in Decibel‘s #1 grindcore column.
Track Premiere: Psycho – ‘Vulture Church’
August 27, 2021 Emily Bellino
40-year grind/punk veterans Psycho worship at the “Vulture Church.”
Full Album Stream: Matsunaga Was Right – “Kings of the Deathmatch”
August 23, 2021 Emily Bellino
Pro wrestling-themed grindcore trio Matsunaga Was Right stream their second album.
Blast Worship: Melting Rot
August 17, 2021 Gene Meyer
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll hurl when you hear Aurora grinders Melting Rot.
Full Album Stream: Imperial Slaughter – ‘…Vile Slobs’
August 10, 2021 Gene Meyer
Clean up your act and hear all of Texas death dealers Imperial Slaughter‘s new LP, …Vile Slobs, before its release this Friday.
Track Premiere: Come Mierda – ‘Warzone’
August 9, 2021 Emily Bellino
New Jersey crust crew Come Mierda enter the “Warzone” with their new track.
SIEGE of Sacrilege: Robert Williams Goes Avant Death-Pop on “Morning Has Broken”
August 4, 2021 Shawn Macomber
Self-described “extreme musick-devoted freak” Robert Williams has a song in his heart — a throat full of broken glass.
Blast Worship: Eastwood
August 3, 2021 Gene Meyer
International blasters Eastwood will make any grindcore fan’s day.
Blast Worship: Shitbrains
July 20, 2021 Gene Meyer
Don’t overthink the caustic grind of Los Angeles blast duo Shitbrains.
Track Premiere: Pray U Prey – “Living Library”
July 13, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Our minds have led us into ignorance, so Shrew and Shrub return with the crust punk/death metal of Pray U Prey to lead us out of ignorance.
Track Premiere: Fawn Limbs – “Noose Gestures”
July 8, 2021 Bradley Zorgdrager
Hear multinational grinders Fawn Limbs expand their multilateral sound on “Noose Gestures.”
Blast Worship: Gastropod
June 29, 2021 Gene Meyer
Midwest grindcore crew Gastropod marry a caveman aesthetic with a progressive approach to performance.
Blast Worship: Ptomatopsiaa
June 15, 2021 Gene Meyer
Are Ptomatopsiaa your new favorite hypergoreblast band? Of course they are!
Full EP Stream: Mule Skinner – ‘7″‘
June 15, 2021 Emily Bellino
Stream the new seven-inch from NOLA grind outfit Mule Skinner.
Blast Worship: Choke
June 8, 2021 Gene Meyer
Choke‘s It’s Hard To Talk Shit, With No Fucking Teeth is the antifacist grindcore antidote to a lifetime of bullshit.
Full Album Stream: Orphan Donor – “Unraveled”
June 8, 2021 J. Andrew
According to Orphan Donor, the new album “is an authentic expression and account of some of the hardest and scariest times in my life.”
Video Premiere: Wanderer- ‘Mind Leash’
June 3, 2021 Emily Bellino
Wanderer go all out on short-and-sweet new track, “Mind Leash.”
Blast Worship: Bleachdrinker
June 1, 2021 Gene Meyer
A hearty bottoms up to Bleachdrinker‘s voracious whirlwind of blast beats and D-beats.
Blast Worship: Kuvotus
May 25, 2021 Gene Meyer
Hear Finnish groove grinders Kuvotus make the genre somewhat accessible in their split with fellow blasters Tunkio.
Track Premiere: Schismopathic – ‘Vote for Me’
May 18, 2021 Emily Bellino
Old-school grind crew Schismopathic have a message for politicians and those who vote for them.
Blast Worship: Cognizant
May 18, 2021 Gene Meyer
Dallas blasters’ split release with Cryptic Void is a definite grind album of the year candidate.
Full Album Premiere: Waternoose – “All Pain, No Feeling”
May 4, 2021 Gene Meyer
If you are a fan of any era of Daughters, the Locust or Saetia, it’s time to tune into the powerviolence/screamo/shoegaze hybrid of Waternoose.
Blast Worship: Chadhel
April 27, 2021 Gene Meyer
Get to know Quebec crushers Chadhel as they team up with Assidious Assault on a crucial new split
Track Premiere: Yautja – “The Spectacle”
April 20, 2021 Cody Davis
Listen to an exclusive stream from Nashville noisemongers Yautja and watch the official music video of “The Spectacle” now. Then pre-order The Lurch from Relapse Records ahead of its release on May 21.
Full Album Stream: Monnier – “Monnier”
April 19, 2021 Emily Bellino
Monnier unleash hyperspeed grind madness on their self-titled compilation.
Memphis Grindcore Collective Knoll on Physical Media, New Material & Performing at Roadburn
April 13, 2021 Billups Allen
Catching up with Knoll drummer James Eubanks in the wake of their first pressing of Interstice selling out and before their upcoming appearance at this weekend’s Roadburn Redux
Blast Worship: Sugar Wounds
April 13, 2021 Gene Meyer
Are Myrtle Beach’s Sugar Wounds the world’s first “shoegrind” band? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t listen to their Calico Dreams release right now.
